Improvement in book-binders  head-bands



uitml 5mn/*5 i-L'IUS SCHLICHTING, OF NE'W YORK, N. Y. I Lette/rs Patent No. 88,587, dated April 6, 1869. l

IMPROVEMENT IN'BOOK-BINDERS' HEAD-BANDS.

The Schedule referred to in these Lett'xs Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that L'JULIUS scumcrrrme, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Head-Band for Book-'Binding; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure I represents a front view, and A Figure II, a cross-section of my improved head-band.'

The nature of my invention consists in manufactur- Aing, as a new article of manufacture, a head-band, hav.

ing the raised and ornamented part, and the plainwoven part, by which the same is glued and fastened to theback ofthe book, made in one piece, said raised part being ornamented by the use of colored woof.

The warp a is arranged of the required wid-th in the loom, on one side of which, and above thc regular warp- .threads, two, three, 0r more, heavier threads, or cords,

n m v, are arranged. o

1f the ornamented part A is required to be made very wide, or broad, a piece ci parchment, or any other similar flexible substance,ofv the required width, may be placed between the heavier threads or cords.

The weft, or woot', which is used to weave the part B, of the required texture, is made to cross likewise, occasionally, the heavier cord-warp, or the piece of parchment, which may be used so as to connect the same with thisA part B After the weft has crossed once or twice the regular warp-threads a, or the warp-threads and cords, weft of a heavier texture, 9:,-01' of a number of threads, and of any desired color, is used to cross the heavier threads, or cords, or the cords' and the piece of parchment, or

its equivalent, and made to cross the same, as well as a fewof the regular warp-threads, two, or more times,

after which the regular weft ,ismade to operate again,. `and 'then again lthe heavier, colored weft or a weft of a different vcolor, as may be desired, or as t-he design may require, the colored weft a: being -only made to weave in with the'cords, 0r cords and parchment, and the few warp-threads situated and arranged directly under and between rthe cords, or the cords andthe parchment, or its equivalent, while the regular weft is 

